Unite, worth going

I was lucky enough to go to Unite Australia today. I would highly recommend going if you get the chance in a city near you. The Unity talks I saw were well constructed and interesting. There was a great sense of community and a lot of friendly people.

On a personal I was very happy a few of the Unity people who I respect a lot came to see my talk and I hope they will invite me to speak again next year (hear that unity I want another one!) and the timing is perfect with the other conferences running this week in Melbourne. I hope it can grow a little next year. Some of the Unites overseas are impressive but it was a great start.

I actually feel guilty my tomorrow job is make contact with the people from unreal with how much everyone at Unity impressed me.

It has also left me feeling very inspired and I happily coding a prototype in my hotel room now!

 

Sounds like alot of fun, and the schedule looked very varied covering all sorts of bits and pieces. Do you have any photos you can share?

By the way, the bit in bold, what do you mean exactly?

 

I have some photos on my twitter https://twitter.com/JamesDestined

Part of my work in the museum is running digital workshops for young learners(like 8-14 although I would love to expand to adults soon). We have run both unity and unreal classes in the past. Tomorrow I going to try and talk to the people at unreal see what opportunities there might be to help or be involved in that.

I have no plans to change from Unity for my development at work. I have used both and I have a strong preference to Unity.

 

I was there yesterday to, was cool! but Intel wouldn't give me a tablet

 

were they giving other people tablets?

I didn't actually really talk to intel, I was more interested in talking to Microsoft and Nintendo

 

Yeah, they were giving them out if you said you'd put a game on X86 Android. Did you see everyone with the DreamWorks style boxes? those were tablets.

 

I plan to attend Unite next year.

I hope Unity posts videos for the Australia sessions soon. I want to check out the Voxiebox presentation. By any chance, did either of you attend that session?

At Unite in Seattle, Magic Leap gave a presentation that was more of just a teaser to get game devs interested. They said that they would give a presentation on the actual hardware details at the next Unite but I don't see them on the schedule for Brazil or Australia. A week ago they announced that Google invested $500 million but there's still no real info on what it is.

BTW, on the topic of Australia, my favorite TV Show of all time is MasterChef Australia. The British, American and Canadian versions of that show all pale in comparison.

 

So why wouldn't they give you one? Did you have to have already published an ARM android game?

 

Oh I did see them, but honestly I was more focused on other things (and a little nervous nobody would come see me lol)

 

I hope your presentation went well. I'll check it out if it gets posted to YouTube.

I've watched a lot of previous Unite videos on YouTube and they have been both interesting and helpful to me in my own projects.

 

I saw cameras in the theatre but not in any of the conference rooms so I don't think mine was recorded. (i wasn't asked if it could be so I assume it wasn't)

 

Wish I could have gone

 

I checked out the Voxiebox was cool, unfortunantly they didn't have one at the conference, I think it has potential but has a long way to go before it's a viable platform.

 

Missed this one, plan to go next year.

 

Voxiebox is a really cool demo tech. It worth googling it if you are interested.

For now it generally too expensive and small to really blow me away. I find it hard to see too many applications that would be improved enough from it. I really excited by illumi room/live room from xBox in that space. It isn't the same but it certainly has the wow factor and is much cheaper to setup.

 

I did end up googling them. Their web site says that they have a sale on in the New York city area.

You can rent one for only $2,700/day.

At that price, I'll take two!

 

For that price you can get enough projectors and depth motion readers to setup a completely immersive room. That is what I meant by cool technology but too expensive at the moment. For it to even have a chance of mainstreaming they need to be 5-10% of the price IMO and even then it would still be pretty expensive.

Still cool and has potential.

 

After going to GCAP for the last 2 days, Unite impressed me even more. It was far better organised and a better spread of spaces.

GCAP was cool too and awesome to hear from makers of the room and monument valley. The makers of the room basically said Unity was the reason that game was possible for them.

 

I've never heard of GCAP. I checked out the schedule on their website and there are definitely some talks I would have liked to sit in on. Any idea if they will be posting the videos?

 

I didn't see any cameras recording. The things I went too at GCAP were generally good but it was a real mess in between talks cause the space wasn't as appropriate as it could of been.

Monument valley guy showed off some unused levels!

 

Hi Tyler,

Mitch from Intel - I was running our presence at the show. Sorry for the late reply, one of the Unity folks pointed me to this thread.

We were seeding hardware in a variety of mechanisms. I gave one away at Trapper McFerron's talk (Big Android: Reaching the Masses! Adding X86 Support to your game), I gave 3 away via Twitter and then as you mentioned we had our Androi x86 Lab where we seeded hardware to developers who brought their Unity based Android projects with them. It was I thought a pretty neat lab, because it literally involves just hitting "build" on a new version of Unity 4.6 that has x86 support built in. So for folks who are already on 4.5 or 4.6 it was a matter of hitting build, and for those on older versions of Unity, a little more work to get to the latest version, then hitting build.

The hardware we were seeding is the Fuhu/Nabi Dreamtab with our Atom processor in it (codenamed Baytrail). Even though it looks like a kids toy, it's actually one of the higher spec tablets on the market with OpenGLES3.1 support as well as a pressure sensitive pen input that I know a lot of DCC artists like.

Did you go through the Android x86 Lab and we had run out of hardware? Everyone who sucessfully built an APK got a tablet.

~Mitch

 

Thanks for the clarification, Mitch.

I'm excited to see what Intel brings to the mobile space.

 

If I knew that I would of gone and got one. It is always good to have more devices to test on!

 

With all of our OEM partners, we're committed to our goal of shipping 40 MILLION Intel based tablets into the market this year

I'm guessing you guys are in Australia, otherwise I'd suggest coming to the Unity 5 Roadshows that we're sponsoring in Austin or Santa Clara in the coming weeks.

~Mitch

 

Why not Australia???